Improvement in beer-cooling apparatus



G. F. HO'VEY. Beer-Cooling Appafatus.

Patented Oct. 23, 1877.

qo e MPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WAS

UNITED STATES Grrrcn.

CHARLES F. HOVEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-COOLING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,297, dated October 23, 1877 application filed August 22, 1877.

flow that it shall receive its supply of air en-.

tirely from the interior of the ice-chest or cooling-chamber, and thus convey only pure cold air to the cask, as hereinafter more fully explained.

- As hitherto constructed, the pump by which air is forced into the cask has commonly been placed under the counter at which the beer is served, in order to be within easy reach of the operator, while the cask is usually located in a cellar below, in order to be kept cool, it being sometimes placed within an ice-box for that purpose. From the cask two pipes eX- tend upward into the room in which the beer is served, one connnunicating with the pump, and the other terminating in afaucet from which the beer flows. When it is desired to draw beer from the faucet, the pump is operated, which forces air into the cask until a pressure is created therein sufficient to cause the beer to flow up through its pipe and out at the fancet. It is also a common practice to form the pipe through which the beer passes to the faucet into a coil, said coil being located in a cooling chamber, so that the beer shall be cooled during its passage to the faucet.

It will be seen that when thus arranged it is necessary to have a collar, and to use long pipes for the air and beer to pass through, and it will also be noticed that the air which is supplied to the cask is taken from the room in which the beer is served.

- These facts render this arrangement very objectionable, for several reasons. In the first place, the great length of pipes necessitates a large supply of air to the cask, and at a greater pressure than where short pipes are used, while the beer, in passing through any considerable length of pipe, is very apt to take up foreign matter, which injures it, and in many cases poisons it. Then, too, the apparatus thus arranged is necessarily a permanent fixture, incapable of being transported from place to place. But probably the greatest objection to this arrangement lies in the fact that, as before stated, the supply of air to be forced into the cask is taken from the room in which the beer is served. As this is usually done in a bar-room or restaurant in which a number of persons are congregated, and in which the temperature is always higher than that of the beer, it is apparent that warm, vitiated air will be forced into the cask. This greatly injures the beer, causing it not uufrequently to become flat and unfit for use before the cask is near emptied.

It is to obviate these difficulties, and to produce a cooler which may be readily transported from place to place for use, and which may be placed under an ordinary counter, that my invention is designed.

To this end I construct a chest, A, of wood or other suitable material, and line its interior partially or entirely with galvanized sheet-iron, zinc, or other suitable material, after the manner of constructing an ordinary ice-chest. The chest is provided with one or more removable sides, H, and a removable, cover or top, B, through which access may be had to the interior of the chest. At or near one end of the chest, inside of the same, is located an airpiunp, G, of any suitable construction, it being secured to one of the walls of the chest by means of screws or other suitable means.

The cask which contains the beer is placed inside of the chest, in such position as to leave an open space all around it between it and the walls of the chest. In the upper end of the cask a cylindrical tubular plug or drive, m, is inserted, and through this plug passes a tube, 0, the lower end of which passes down to, or nearly to, the bottom of the cask, while its upper end terminates in a faucet, F, of any suitable construction. A packed j oint is formed at the upper end of the plug or drive m, where the tube 0 passes through it, but below this point an annular space is left between the tube 0 and the interior of the plug or drive m. A tubular projection, I, is formed on one side of r the plug or :drive m, communicating with the annular space jus tmentioned, so that con necting' the pump G and the tubular prejee V tronZ,bymeaus ofashorttubeorpipe, a, air

uwillibe caused: topass into, the easlrE when the pump is operated, and maybe held there by turning the small cock. shown near the tubularprojeetion; V V v ,Itwill be observed that all the parts of this apparatus are placed Within the chest, except B and D, as shown, :ata point directly in line 7 with the tube or pipe 0, a semicircular nc tch beingmade in reach sectionto it around the same.

n In order to close the lid or cover when thel pump isnot being used, and at the same time 1 I to render thepump 'readily'accessible, a poor-e i tion of the 1id ,G, is 1 out out: and hinged'to: the main portion B',as'shown, the :port io'niG being I 7 directly over; the pump. If preferred, how i r ever,th e handle of; the-pump may extend up:

through the top or cover in the same manner as the tuber or theipunip maybe attached to r the outside of the chest, with its supply-pipe i opening intoithe same; e p

The pump, caslgand tuhesbeing: all placed 7 within the ice-chest, .it isappaient that the air Whichis forced into the cask must be cold and pure, and the pipes being short, the :air

and beer will pass through them Without becoming in any Way affected thereby.

The apparatus thus constructed occupies but a small amount of space, and can be placed under an ordinary counter, or it may be made ornamental in appearance and Iplacedin sight; canhe taken :from place to place for picnics and exeursiol-is, and is cheapto: manufacture;

, The drive and sliding tube Will'forui the subject of a s'eparatepatent.

cask, for I am aware that a chest of this char acter, arranged to contain the pump 'and cask' v in separate unconnected compartments, and

to cool the air by'iorcing it through a ressel 1 filled :with water and ice, has been hitherto patented.

; Hai ingthus described my iiiventioi1 what i I claim 10- i The combination of the-iee-chest having j thesingle interlgialehamher,adaptedto receive 7 i V a'cask, with "the'air purnp mounted in and arranged to receive air fromsaid chamber, and i the'pipe adapted toconvey air from the pump i i to the cask, substantially as shown 7 i 2; The ice chestor chamber, adaptodto res cei-ve a cask, prorddedwith the internal up 7 V 7 right airpum'p and theitop' door 0, as shown,- so that the pump may be operated from; the

outside While surrounded by'iee; i

e 3. In a beer-cooler, an air-pump mounted in and arranged to receive air frolnthe chamber: 7 inwhich-the cask and its: surrounding ice are placed, substantially as shown and described.

; getg Theicombiuationof the chest having the V removable front and sectional top, and the r single internal chamber, with the airpump G cask E, and connecting-tube a mounted there in, and the discharge-pipe extending down 7 Ward within the cask andupw ard through the top of the chest.

CHARLES E. HOVEY. Witnesses:

J. P. BUOKLAND, WM. G. WHITE.

: I do not c1aim,;broadly,: an icechest containr n mg an aii pump, and adapted to receive a 

